Recent content by Jawsh

I'm on a podcast! What's it about? Listen and find out. Okay, this one's about collections and hoards, both in-universe, and out-of-universe. Where can you get this podcast? Right here: Blogger iTunes YouTube (audio only, but there's some letters to look at)...

A good friend and I just started ourselves a new podcast. We're calling it The Simulationist. You can get there by going to http://thesimulationist.com or http://youtube.com/thesimulationist It's about games and simulations and everything else. Sound quality is good, if I say so myself. Our...

If Monte's out, I'm out. Not in the sense that I won't buy it. I'm going to buy the 5E core rulebooks, whatever form they take. I will play 5E at conventions and for one-shots. But 3E remains my game. When it comes to adventures, splatbooks, miniatures, and magazine articles, I'm going to be...

Me too. True, but I think the culprit behind the utterly broken crap is that it was rushed at the time. The designers were under the gun, tried really hard to think of a cool mechanic, or something great that should happen in the game. Then they did it. They accomplished what they were under...

He's trying to invent a problem to fix, and then to add insult to injury, he's fixing it wrong. Start by defining the problem: rolling too many d6s is not everybody's cup of tea. It might be some people's cup of tea, but we want D&D to work for everybody. How does giving everybody sneak...

It all depends what options are in the core rules. 1. If psionics aren't in the core rules, I'll be picking up the Psionics Handbook. 2. I definitely want Manual of the Planes. 3. If there isn't epic level support in the core rules, I want an Epic Level Handbook. 4. Savage Species. Or...

The one thing that I wish existed between all editions is continuity. Take note, the word "edition" has the word "edit" in it. That means you take the old thing, the existing work, and improve on it. It's not even a new edition if it's going to be a reinvention every time. That's why WotC is...

Okay, since you axed nicely. I use a thirteen-alignment system, with options for additional alignments if a player wishes to write something else on their character sheet. It starts with a base of the traditional nine -- law, chaos, good, evil, on a grid. Then it adds five neutral...

Who is the target audience of D&D Next? I really do believe that WotC is attempting to be as broad as possible. They want everybody and their dog to play D&D. In the entire world. Whether they can do that is another question, and I think it's impossible. However, what we're seeing at...

I'll tell you what they mean: pre-printed battlemaps with built-in dungeons. They did it in 4th, and they'll do more of it in 5th. It will be premium products with all the prep work done for you on huge battlemaps. Good news for high-disposable-income, low-free-time players.

subscriber numbers is one thing. quality (and consistency) of content is a different matter. Dungeon and Dragon (or any magazine) can be expected to increase in readership/subscriptions, when the price is lowered and the distribution system is widened. Hell, readership should have tripled, if...

I feel like responding to this. I happen to think: Yes, for the most part, taking 4e and slapping an OGL on it would make it work better. That's the best thing WotC could do right now. It wouldn't immediately kill Paizo or immediately regain D&D's market share, but I am sure that in the long run...

You keep saying there is a problem. Where is the problem? What exactly is weaksauce about being venerable for a long time?

If they were making the game just for me? Then no, don't include optional rules, because I already treat all rules as optional. I know rule zero, and I live by it. My problem with modularity is that it takes up valuable page-space, and those are pages I'm going to have to flip through to find...

I'd honestly like to see whether 5E will address the discrepancy between this and the Knowledge skills, especially History.